The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 8, 1905, Page 1

a =. One Cent-- Last Edition” “he Seattle Star TANGMAN G NUDGE: £ UFt OF MARY Hib Women Murderer Goes to Her Death With-| Out a Tremor---In Face of Death »: Woman's Vanity Asserts Itself WINDSOR, Vt Dec 8. —Mre. Mary Rogers was banged at 1:14 this afternoon | Sho went to the scaffold without of betraying a sign or tion, and made no sta ta indicating by a nod of her head that she was ready Twenty-four minutes after her neck was broken she was pro nounced a Thanks Matron. Her march from the death cell began at 1:06, just as she had con cluded a short religious service with Father Delaney, As the deputt appeared at the door of her cell Mrs. Rogers said she was ready to g0, and thanked the prison matron for her kindness In the face of death the woman's vanity asserted itself. She called for her gold chain and locket, and carefully placed it about her neck. which was bare, the matron hav ing previously removed the collar. She wore no corset. Not a Tremor. The cell door creaked as the pris oner stepped out Into the corridor and took her place between the sheriffs, and the m She reached the scaffold with. out & falter, and took her seat and gazed upon the spectators hough looking at a scene in which whe bad no part. The adjustment wt her hood used no tremor. Deputy Sheriff MeCauley teased the trap, invoking the div Diessing upon the woman's soul as he did so. WHITE RIVER JUNCTION. Vt Dec. §.—Governor Bell arrived this Morning. stating that Mary Rogers most hang. He said “It ts a matter for the people of Vermont state to decide, and they have decided that she murt die. Ev- ‘@ry opportunity has been given her, and every attempt in all the court: state and federal, has failed. Since midnight I have read 600 letters in her behalf, but only one was from B resident of Vermont. I talked with lawyers al! night en route, and heard not a thing to cause a re- prieve or commutation.” Weeps All Night. The woman wept uearly all was broken in morning. Pather prayed with her much of the night. She slept fitfully to ‘ward dawn, and awoke and asked @etaiied questions about the gal- re- States marshal was vat the request of the pris- s, to serve imme- writs of the federal courts ‘ts issued at the last moment Story of the Crime Mra. Mary Rogers murdered her husband, Marcus Rogers, on Aug ‘Bt, 1903. _ Bhe married him when she was 16. They did not live happliy, and for some time had been separated. Mary wanted—so the trial devel- fon. She wanted. also, the jury de- Gided, $600 insurance Marcus car- ‘ted. marry a man of Bewning-| sent a note to her husband ik Falix, requesting him to and see her. Seemingly, de- @ifferences and separation, the atron by her) ove of Marcu® for Mary had not S hed, . | | Enter Perham He heeded her request They walked to the banks of stream, the woman reconctiing, the! mar 0 t. ‘They sat by the! side of th 00k acene—a mere 16 Id boy, Rog }-——he was i ent of the deadly plot it play a Httle game,” said M ve « t uk, as Ahe and Marcus hap ily entered into the scheme of his wh Plot Be Mra. Rogers wagered young Perham t 1 not tle her hands with that she joould not rel Of course he had the necessary rope on hand. Poor, innocent Marcus thought well of the performance. It would be so funny to see Maury tied up and try- ing to get loose. But Mary got loose—and very, very easily. So then it was Marcus’ to be tied up. They fixed him. Mary and Leon. “Tie him tight,” sald the ‘latter. Marcus lay there heiptess, his! eyen raixed to the sky, half realix ing the duplicity of which he was the victim, but he sald: “Mary!” And Mary put her arms around his neck, and worse than Delilah ever thought of doing, kissed him rapturously and anid: couldn't get away APPEAL TO COUR GREEN LAKE CITIZENS BAND TOGETHER TO COMPEL SEATTLE ELECTRIC COMPANY TO FU ‘The citizens residing on the west fide of Green lake are going into court to force the Seattle Electric company to give them what claim to be their rights. This course was decided upon at &@ meeting of the Green Lake Im- provement club on the west side last night. Relief from the poor car service now furnished to the west side is what is sought. A committee of five met at the ety hall this morning to take the Recessary steps to secure an attor ney and begin the fight. Present Arrangement. The Green Lake car line loops around Green lake, passing through Woodland. park. As a consequence the patrons are compelled to make the trip all around the lake either while going or returning to the city in an attempt to obviate this dif. ficulty, the electric company has! could run in both directions all day —_—_— —_ FIGHT SHY OF JAIL NELSON THE LOWEST | The contract for cutting down the | _— Yesier block, between Third and} Fourth, to the new grade lines of the | Bither the people of King county) surrounding streets, was let to E. | Becoming better or else they! weison yenterday afternoon by the in holy fear of the accumu nty commissioners. Neison of- | nentence taw. fered to take the earth out at 21 of aller Wine said thisl Cores a cubic yas working under as far as he kMEW) the wupervision of County Surv: yor | in the history of the) valentine. The International | there been suck « many, C. J, Brickson and @ Ore \H. J, McHugh were the other bid- paw tere are but, go there’ was a “et trem ® to 186 but th® hap decreased, to ex@nt as to excite the of the county and city au- Ki held for burglary and life, was committed ie er tary today, his appeal Cometh nome having been refused King was wanted by ent, but he their clutches, as is days will be penitentiary. eharged with grand to the they | RNISH BETTER SERVICE struck a compromise by which it claims the major portion of the ree jidents are best Xecommodated. In the morning and up until noon the ears on their way out from the city are run through Woodland park along the west shore, so that the widents of the west side are com- | pelled to go around the east shore |to go to work down town. After | noon the cars are run in the oppo site direction, Claim It's Unjust. The citizens who are making the fight claim the arrangement is not! just. They claim, further that the! | Seattle Electric company knows It, jand would like to make a change, | but {# deterred on account of cer- tain interests on the east side The whole difficulty would be ob viated were double tracks ald around the lake shore, so that cars eee eee ee ee ee GRARGER WITH LA cross®, wis., 8. Hiram Goddard, a lumberman ot this city, bought 7,000 acres of timber land from Horace G, Me~- Kinley. He in ngw notified that the certificates are fraudulent. God- dard says he has lost $160,000 to $200,000. United States secret serv- jee men want MeKin'ey to answer | the charges. McKinley ts the first man convicted In Then Mary chic med Mark from a bottle she bh dy in her] walt 4 tittle perfume I bought for sin k,” whe said perfurned the rest of M vdlp wt mab pan 8 He struggled, but his resistance was infantile, Leon jumped bith t Mary's command, That settled it. They picked him up aud threw him into the strear Then Mary proved her own un foing. She wrot » piece of pa per De not my wife for thin, as whe had «to with it Gives Herself Away And she signed her husband's name to thin, pinned it on his hat and hung It on « tr Next day she t and watied, | and lamented hix loam to the potice of Benningt Mork,” she feared, bad mitted suicide The police were surprised. They | knew she had not been living with| him. The tears to them seemed thone of the crocodile Mra. Rogers’ next act seemed the ultimate of insanity, Bhe sug that the police search for Roger the brook. They found b plot was revealed at a glance MARY ROGERS. SEATTLE, WASHINGT jing for the murder of Fred Alder jaying the carrying son in @ brawl! at Darring»| sentences, He met death withou! a ton, Snohe county, May 1, 1908. | falter WARNER DIES GAME ay ON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER | MET DEATH BRAVELY} lh in | WALLA WALLA, Dec, &—Anm-( Par a Bong gine he feigned insanity gus MePhail 4, was hanged at day and claimed to have been hypnat | break at the state prison this morn=| ed By @ stranger, thus suc din out of | SAN QUENTIN, Cal., Dec. &— af 1092 this morning in the yatd, The case was ap Walter Warner, convicted of thelihe pupreme court, but the murder of Marie Tomaya at Santa; ment of the | virt wa Barbara in June, 1904, was a Warner died game VOL NO 244 UEATH tka GLA That Dz The Only Paper in Seatile ares to Print the News MED hi ER MO PORTLAND, Ofe., De AM TO PORTLAND. TOTTERING THRONE — Re ST. PETERSHURG, 1 | count Witte yesterday caar his reatgnation. A senmational the cxar read it. Me tore the doe ment into bite and flinging them at Witte’s feet, naked, angrily Are you such a poor patriot as to desert me in this hour of mim | fortune? You shall remain in-of- until I wee fit to relieve you! fice ae man contemplating pulcide would not tie his own hands behind him. Kille Her Child Leon? he and Mary were sodden graded emotions. Mary coufenned. after that she had murdered ne well Her ex “She feared to be an bad an herse Many Attempts to Save mii Since her incarceration hundreds | her months-old baby and thrown it in «| He will spend the rest of his life in the penitentiary Both and de- They had no real human if arrest, nine. ht grow Her Life of attempts have been made to save her from the gnilows. the United States have par eee ee ee WHITE DOVE RETUR TO O'BRIEN Peace and good wili at O'Brien—at least as m which has once been r dissenting opinion last night comm, Olds friends, estranged, met once shook hands at the big warming in the new school house, while the ster’.were merry over some goodies and sweet The consolidation, divisi boundary difficulties, agreed, had at la ‘wettied satisfactorily, marriage bell. ee ed GYPSY KING IS UNDER A case against Pete King of the Gypsies,” The the’ Mitchell is charged with disorderly person. Patrol Donald made the arrest dred of his fol at South Seattle The Gypsies their holiday of the Christ are festivities child and w year, In ce mixed the ce considerable tntoxica this reason the pole of the 4 they ha with for th leader. Mitchell is a forte predicted a com before the when his case magistrate trial, He time, COMPANY NOT TO BLA A coroner's jury, Ravensdale by Wiltaie, exonerated company from any Assistant the Scores the most prominent club women In| ine local office, # can prevail in a school district The burying of the hatchet s a happy more and all and went merry as the proverbial encampment and arrest furnished $25 cash bail and was allowed to go until blame tn death of Louls Kuntz and the per-| of thetpated. t* NS ST prevail puch as ‘ent by tic long house $5,000 young tooth tmeats ion and it was been all Sete eee EERE ESR RR ee the RREST Mitchell was con | tinued In police court this morning being a man Me One bun wers are encamped now holding | honor | in the rating premonies ants, and © raided | ine teller plete ex mmitting comes to that summoned at Coroner mining the manent injury of Robert Souscinski and William Prince, in a mine dis aster at that place last Sunday. BIG FIRE AVERTED A fire that threatened ond and Pike, brok rear of the clothing o jay afternoon. A prompt Marche, the big department S ore at First, shortly after 4 o’cloc! the Bon re at ut in the 1416 Kk yester- response | a, of the fire department prevented a spread of the flames and a disas- trous fire. birth | 1 their} turned sharply la nd the that caar te on intimate f be w have bee but the coun! tt the crisis ix ot Witte ie diekatistied with as he feos it in beyond his paw to restore order ST. PETERSBURG, Dec, & arvonal and expelled the officers. in expected the postal handed the ene ensued, after nd ting in the middle of aid @iad to get rid of Witte, Wa indinpengable wre ~The) infantry at Ekaterineslay seized the telegraph strike will end soon, the government & agreed to the economic but ignation of : ---The Czar Calls Witte : id the i treatment from hie imperial maater It demands of the MESSAGE FROM CAPT. AODMUNG EN FINALLY SENT TO FAMOUS ARCTIC EXPLORER—NORW AY PROVIDES FUNDS Roand Admunsen, the Arctic plorer, who in now about due reach Dawson, was forwarded Professor Nansen office of the United States | office at Seattle this morning. contains an official statement sought northwest passage. Major Glaseford, in charge release of the about by The | brought government neas to back up Captain the LOSS WAS BIG FIRE HOUSE Lana, $200,000 LITTLE HAPPENINGS Lucas $416.79 as judgment sult against W. H others, to re er money on a how by the plaintiff for the | butit fondant In tho case of others against others, for whom the former built and for which od, hoot the Chutes,” |the latter, It was alle | pay, judgment in the « was rendered. Mining company Gold ern to Ballard, and = the company, be claims, instead charging him the regular tariff him, he asserts, for $200. ho is a bookkeeper, was fined $1 and given a jail sentence of 80 da: roll of butter from a Washingt at. restaurant, December 7, at 2 ell’ rporatiol thi afternoon at 2 o'clock, The 1,080 word report of Captain ex from the local | San Franciseo cable} structing him to forward It ts presumed that this message | require. re rding his discovery of the jong-| Bijpa that their ted today that} the message would, in all likelthood, | arfive in Dawson late tonight or reach Professor Nansen thin after- | same time tomorrow ‘The long eablegram was sent! there be will $200,000 AT BUFFALO DE- STROYS DOCKS AND WARE- BUFFALO, Dee. &.—The shops the Union Drydock company and} the » railroad freight house, destroyed by firt&this mora- Jud Frater awarded William M. cena in his) i aician in charge of the county Thompeon end | hd de. H. 8. Worthen and Ben Silverman and Charles Livingstone has been dis charged by Judge Frater from tur ther duty a# receiver of the Bureka as the af. read | $1 for a hundred pounds, piled it on Thomas Henry,«who claima that today for the theft of a two-pound At the meeting of the city coun- nm committee held See-, financially Funds for Admunsen. to] "A cablegram was received by to) Henry Land, Ni maul at this morning tn to Cap: | tain Admunsen any funds be might The message also instruct } Ga him to notify the sailors of the relatives in the enjoying laid country were h. Captain Admunsen is expected to On arriving await instructions noon to Christiania, Nerway. From that | from Professor Nahsen, As soon as point, in the event of Profomsor pimaible Captain Admunsen will Nansen having already departed for | Isave for the United Staten Eng and, it will be forwarded to him. This message will cost $864. Plane by the message wan | Norwegians of Seattle are now be Norwegian signifying its willing Nansen , jag. diseunsed. A meeting for the ie 10 be “held shortly. ond avenue street car franchise was again brought up. Friends and relatives of Prof. Frederick Shulze, who died at his home on Yesler Way, yesterday morning, have announeed that the fuperal of the well known musician has been delayed pending answe to telegrams sent to friends of the dead man in the east, where he well known and respected. At the masa meeting of the shin glo manufacturers of Washington, | Which is to be held here Tuesday. | December 19, probably the mont will be a proposition to make per manent the organization now known an the Shingle Mills bureau, which waa organized for temporary pur | poses. of was formally of Corson the office Dr, appelpted Ww. to this afternoon, He suc ceeds Dr. O'Rourke: Cotton sime time ago was shot fn. the head and slightly wounded. during an attempted jail break by the desperado, John Hildebrand. a! lt ts understood that Dr. 8. P. Wooltlin, who as Dr, O'Rourke's as alstant, has virtually conduc Affairs of the county hospital jmore than two years, will be re- tained in office as assistant to Dr. Corson RARER KEKE RRR RR * apttal ae fairs of the company have been! 4 noo g 1905 $975,687.10 © satisfactorily settled. Discs 8, 1904 420,244.40 w Thomas Sanderson, of Stephen, |) M hd | |Minn., shipped his household £0048) 4’ rnerense over same ni |frém bis home via the Great North-| Gate last year $954,912.70 * RARER “SKOOKEMVILLE” POLITICS At Christensen's hall Arcade uilding, tonight in mock conven- m the Young Men's Republican jub will nominate a municipal tick- for “Skookemvill a city of of 00 ve 10' @iub members may be he'd respon- ‘gible, Immediately after the bw is session of the club the con- ition Will be called, Twelve will be refresented, good parpose of formulating a program | was | important matter to be brought up | CORSON IS NAMED county | * | ‘To keep the east waterway in the for | ni Which the vivid fmaginations of the | ning th ee + GARNISHEERS ADAMS * K *. lt « District Atlors ® * Fry thie afternoon # | le meunt’ Shere. See @} i* ent the shares & * Adama, | * + of the ® + ¥ office, In ® }* th r le ate ‘orporation of ® jw & Co, * \* *) A cieliglclictcMMataRealdetetel Is NATOR JOHN H. MITCHELL. LIGH T FOR | diabetas and ie greatly enfeebled by jage, and long continued ill health jand mental worry resulting from his ad conviction. He is only volution Mitchell is past 70 and has no relatives here. Light Inspector Sheldon today nator John H. Mitchel and ma inapection of South eSattle| Congressman Binger Hermann, of | to ascertain whether o it would <= be ad to bulld a line to that] be vince (o Dalla « ine w thet! DEB ABS BOR - WATER AnD pa. i | for mtree | KIRKLANDERS WERE THERE t |. About two-thirds of the town of| Alpheus Byers argued very ear | Kirkiand filled the court house this | Destly before. Judge. Frater this] | morning and packed Judge Frater’«| morning for a permanent injunction court against the city to prevent it from | room to listen to the argu ments of Attorneys Judd an shutting off the water.in his prem- | son, appearing for the inc ises, 418 Boren ay., at one time! element of the town, to show cause | Wed as a church, but now occupied why an election on the question of |bY F. A. Ghighione & Co, as a | diatncorpe m shall not be he'd. | macaroni factory | The court has held that R. D.| A temporary injunction had al- | Collins, mayor of the town, and five ready been granted. 0. A. Tucker councilmen who were also in court, | appeared for the city shall not go electioneering on the| Another suit affecting the city question, and this point will be dis-| waterworks was again heard in |puted by the attorneys, on the | Judge Albertson's court this morn- |ground that while men in office | ing, when the case of the Seattle | were morally obliged to refrain | hotel against the city, claiming $500 from getting Votes, they were not damages from a bursted water logally restrained | main, was argued. Superintendent }L. B. Youngs, of the city water- HURRAH AT OPENING | works, testified for the city. 0. B. ;, if the plans now being considered | Thorgensen acted as attorney for by the officials of the Great North-| the city Jern and Northern Pacific are car- | ried through the formal opening of | LOST Two ‘FINGERS |the new union pansenger depot,| While engaged in the rolling of a which will be ready about the lat.| umber of barrels of ink from an ter part of March, will be character- y way into an elevator at the ized by elaborate and impressive| Tear of the Times building yester day, Bob Sawyer, manager of the by prominent men of | ‘lifornia Ink company, lost two | this elty and county and a musical | fingers, which were severed from his program are proposed hand between the sharp edges of jtwo barre that collided. The in- CITY “UP AGAINST IT” | jury was a painful one, but Sawyer By raising an assesament levied| was back at his place of business against a North Seattle property! today without proper.y notifying the own er of the change the city now has to/ “COPS ELECT OFFICERS pay a bill of $850 from the general) The Potlce Relief association fund. The only other course that| lected officers at police headquar- conld be taken, according. to an| ter yesterday afternoon. To J. C. lopinion rendered by Assistant Cor.| Wickman, a patrolman, fell — the poration Counsel ‘Thorgrimson, is|Bonor of the presidency. J. Decker, to make @& reassessment which! another beat off! r. jas elected) would cost the city about $350, | Viee president. Captain Ward se jcured the treasuryship and Captain | Laubecher will be the next secre- | tary Several trustees were chosen for the association. YOUNG DOCTOR MURDERED SEW YORK, Dec. 8—Dr. Jobn Matheson, a young physician, was } murdered carly today, apparently by robbers, while going on a pr fessional visit MAY “CAN” EMPLOYES Heads of the executive depart-| menta of the postoffice now have |the power to discharge employes | |without a hearing. The president] | has recently issued an order to this} Formerly the discharged employe was given the opportunity to reply before the civil service commission, | this body acting as a reviewing au-! thority | ac Brokaw, charged with im- MYSTERY TO GROUT | plicat ion in land frauds near Spo- | kane, who jumped bis bond to ap: | pear in the federal court last Jun } What worries Manager Grout, of the city’s employment office, ig | DY making his way as a sai'or be- where a large percentage of the | fore the mast to Australia and then men waiting for positions to turn | to Henolulu, was again placed in up get good and a place to sleep, | custody of United States Marshal | “Over half of the men applying | Hopkins Inst night by E. R. Hen- for jobs here haven't enough 1 dry, marshal for the district of in their pockets to pay their car| Hawail. Brokaw was placed in jail fare to a job,” said Mr. Grout this| Those implicated with him in the morning alleged land frauds, 8. W. 8. Barrett tences at MeNeill's island. don't work Bone and I've | talked to men who tell me they have | W ney not 1a cent for days, and turn elr Ke wide out to that they are usted ges LUMBERMEN TO MEET ers, Prosecuting Attorney Bates yes« eat and where they sicep In'n mee | Within the next 36 days two im-|terday offered to promptly proses l tery’ to. ma.” “| portant meetings of coast lumber-| cute any officials against whont }men will be held. Officers will be| charges might be made if the peti« TRIES TO “STICK” CHILBERG | elected at each meeting |tioners would lay before him evi«. At Tacoma Tuesday the Pacific)dence sufficient to warrant prose The case of Enoch Larsen against | Coast Lumber Manufacturers’ asso-|cution, The committee, however, the Allen Steamship company, with | clation will hold its semi-annual ses-| stated that the petitioners would headquarters in Chicago, in which | sion. t Southwestern Wash- | decline to take the prosecuting ate the plaintiff was awarded $6,500! ington Lumber Manufacturers’ as-|torney into their confidence. damages, was heard before Judge) sociation Is slated to meet the early Yakey this morning, Mayor Ballin-| part of next month | CHARLES STAEMPFEL DEAD ger appearing for the defendant. | At his residence at 22163" Mndite It appears that the steamship| ENOORSE PARK BOND json, Charles Frederick Staempfty company. is endeavoritig to make|, At an enthusiastic and largely at-| 77, died yesterday afternoon, Andrew Chilberg, its local agent, pay | {ended meeting of the F Hill] Mr, Staempfil was a cousin of part of the damages by ga nisheeing| Improvement club at th: nth | President Jacob Staempfil, of Svita~ _ all his receipts and by confiscating | AY. (uP house last night, jerland, and who was at the la large deposit left with it wt ital ct was heartily en-/one of the arbitrators in the Alas — " bama claims agal the United | Chicago offices. PREVENT CONGESTION A ¢ before mmittee was appointed to go the board of public works} and institute a: formal complaint} against the chargeter of the paving| filled-in portion of the south end| work being done in the Renton Hill easily approachable and keep it] district, Several other resolutions available for future docks for ocean | were adopted steamers and railroad terminals, lro REGRADE DENNY HILL Jordinance will soon be placed before the city council to put @ stop to the} For the regrading of Denny hill, | filling up of any of the streeta run. | bounded by Westlake “boulevard, Second, Pike and Denny way, pq tions are being circulated among the property owners of that seotion. The subject Was brought up at yester- day's sesign of the street commit. | tee gf the City coun@ Kerr, H. M. Powell, Frank) nd Leroy V, Newcomb have incorporated the Pike Street Mar- ket company and the National Meat company, the former with $5,000 and the latter with $6,000 capitu!, ning ndthwesterly from iy. to the east waterway. THIEF, WORKS IN. ‘EXCITEMENT While #e was watching the fire appara dash up ond av, yes- terday afternoon W. A. Cole, }of South Seattle, was robbed, a thief snatching her purse and mak- ing his escape in the excitement. |The purse contained $18 and sev- eral trinkets, Whatcom are now serving sen- | ~ | qf commerce rooms Tembenny: Ss Venerable Member of U. S. Senate, Gent. ral Figure in Land Fraud Scandal, Dies of Blood- “Poisoning j Pe 1, Ore, were both indicted | by | grand jury for have | many people in the rr lands | ite entenced to servd jsix months in prison and to pay fine imilar sen Hermann tence Famous Trial, of Mitchell was perhaps nous that éver occurred received @ The tria | of the United Stal and excited editorial and publi@ i er this country and in the leading nations of Europe, lved not only the honesty i ity man, but of | the United Sta te, and of the entire nation Political Power. Mitchell was one of the greatest: | political powers in the country, but | since his disgrace lost control The | Rational appropriation to the Lewig and Clark exposition was mainly | due to bis efforts in congress. An | appeal is now pending before the | supreme court of the United States j asking for the setting aside of the sentence imposed upon Mitchell, Resigns Committees, Yesterday a sensation was create® at Washington when Senator Mitchell resigned from his position as chairman of the committee om {nter-oceanic canals. Later he re- signed from all committees of whicht |he was a member, giving il! health’ as the cause. It was given out that his connection with the Oregom frauds and subsequent convic- tion was really responsible. | Senator Mitchell had served Ore- gon in the senate for 15 years. He was one of the most prominent and, until his conviction, most respect- ed men in the national legislature, Though in poor health for somé time, Mitchell has been able to be | up and attend to business, In spite jof the use of saline solutions an@ the heroic efforts of physicians, vitality slowly ebbed and away, after being unconscious sii midnight. Surrounding the death} | bed were his son-in-law, Judge W, |. Chapman, of Tacom: Postmasted. J. BE. Minto and Collector of Reve enue D. M. Dunne, and his law parte j ner, Allen R. Joy. None of his tm= | mediate family are in Portland. H@ leaves two sons, John H. Mitchelly jr, and Hiram F. Mitchell, a 1 tenant in the regular army, tioned In New York. His wife it in Paris with her daughter. Ai other daughter lives at Canton, Mitchell took the disgrace whi fell upon him in his declining y keenly, yet no word of comp him in public utterance, ‘ Friends Desert Him. What hurt him most was the his former friends and people heavy obligations to him = dri away when shorn of his power. hi appeared but once In publ nee his conviction, when he ate tended the dinner given to James | Hill. He spent his gime between office In the Columbia building a cheap boarding house | JAP TERRORIZER John Doe Hasagawa, allas sung alias Funada, who attempted tt kidnap Toshi Masawa Shikashiyo, @ pretty Japanese girl, a few days ago at the point of a revolver, has been formally charged with an assaul@ ith a deadly weapon, because he fired three shots at K. Inowe The attempted kidnaping and | deadly assault occurred at the Deare 1 on Maynard, and threw se of that section into a panic, as the police have been warms 1 of the existence of on organized ang of blackmatlers and kidnaps jers. “DON'T TRUST PROSECUTOR TACOMA, Dec. 8.—The committee elected by the men who signed the recent petition for the calling of a and jury to investigate the charges of graft against certain city, officials this afternoon went before | Judge Snell, of the criminal de- | partment of the superior court, and laid before him some of the evi- | dence which they claim is sufficient. to prove the officials guilty of core ruption, in an open letter to the petition- States and Great Britain, Rev. W. the funeral services, whtoh will take e at his residence at 2 o'clock unday afternoon, 4 INCORPORATE EXPOSITION Plans for the incorporation of Alaska-Yukon exposition were cussed at a meeting of the rary directors held In the noon. Twentyetve responsible will be appointed by the directors to effect the inéo Jof the exposition, whieh will wee ‘italized at $200,000, Julia, Burns, charged with and battery, has appealed judgement of the justice: filew a $60 bail bond with of the superior court. or protest has ever been credited< D. Simonds will condued —